Magaly M. Blas Marzo 2016 CURRICULUM VITAE Magaly M. Blas, MD, MPH, PhD _____________________________________________________________________ PERSONAL DATA Last name: Blas Name: Magaly Telephone: 51-1-3653557 Cel: 51-995386711 Email: [email protected] CAREER SUMMARY Dr. Magaly Blas was born and raised in Lima, Peru. She studied Medicine at Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University (UPCH) where she graduated as the second-highest graduate of her medical school class. Afterwards, she was selected as the Peruvian counterpart Scholar for the first cohort of the Fogarty/Ellison Fellowship Program from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which allowed her to deepen her research experience in the field of sexually transmitted infections (STI). After this fellowship, Magaly was awarded consecutive scholarships to conduct first a Masters and then a Ph.D. in Public Health (MPH) in the epidemiology track with certificates in both STI/HIV and Biomedical and Health Informatics at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. It was during her track on Biomedical and Health informatics that Magaly developed interest in the study of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to solve health problems. Magaly combined both interests, STI and ICT for the development of her PhD thesis. She conducted the first online randomized controlled trial in Latin America that evaluated the effect of a video-based intervention to increase HIV testing among Peruvian MSM. For this study, Magaly received the 2010 Global Health Council’s new investigator award in Washington DC. After finishing her PhD, Magaly was awarded the NIH-Fogarty Global Research Initiative Program (GRIP) for new foreign investigators award. This competitive grant allowed international researchers who studied in the US, funding for up to 5 years to conduct research in their home country. Magaly’s project built on her previous PhD research was a randomized controlled trial that assessed the effect of a combined web-based intervention that included an online-video, email, chat, and cell-phone text motivational messages to increase the number of MSM who get tested for HIV. In parallel, Magaly received the 2009-2010 Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship for her research project aimed to assess the association between Human Papilloma Virus (a virus that causes cervical cancer) and Human T- lymphotropic virus infection (a neglected virus that causes leukemia/lymphoma among other diseases) in indigenous Women from the Peruvian Amazon. Motherhood had an important impact in Magaly´s life as her current focus is to improve maternal and child health in remote rural areas in the Peruvian Amazon. Magaly is currently the principal investigator of a Grand challenges Canada grant to develop the Mama River Program. This program is training community agents (traditional midwives, health promoters and community mobilizers) to use smartphones to georeference and collect basic information from pregnant women at their communities, and send this information to a Medical Ship in order to program antenatal care visits. Blas - 2 Mama River is also training community agents to send alerts to the medical ships whenever a high- risk pregnancy is identified. Magaly has recently been awarded the 2016 Elsevier Foundation Award for early career women scientists in the developing world and the 2016 Loreal-UNESCO Concytec Award for Peruvian women scientists. Dr. Blas is an associate professor at UPCH School of Public Health and an affiliate associate professor at the Department of Global Health at the UW. EDUCATION DEGREE INSTITUTION AND LOCATION (if MM/YY FIELD OF STUDY applicable) Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia MD 03/2002 Medicine Fogarty International Center - National Institutes Scholar 06/2005 International Clinical of Health, MD Research University of Washington, Seattle, WA MPH 03/2007 Epidemiology concentration in HIV and STI and in Biomedical Informatics University of Washington, Seattle, WA PhD 08/ 2008 Epidemiology Fogarty International Center - National Institutes Fellow 07/2009 International Clinical of Health, MD Research University of Washington -Department of Global Post-Doc 02/2011 Global Health Health Rockefeller-Penn, PA Fellow 06/2011 Women´s Health CURRENT POSITION 1. Associate Professor at the School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. 2. Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1. Position: Principal investigator August 2014 - Now Institution: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia 2 Blas - 3 Founding agency: Grand Challenges Canada/Concytec-Fondecyt Mama River: A maternal and newborn health program for remote communities in the Peruvian Amazon The Mama River program will train traditional midwives to use smartphones (widely available in Peru) to collect information from pregnant women at their communities and to schedule antenatal care visits by the medical ship staff. It will alert the medical vessel whenever a high-risk pregnancy is identified and send reports when a birth occurs, making civil registration and administrative follow-up more effective. The system will also send reports whenever a mother or child death occurs in order to do a verbal or social autopsy to establish the biological, social, behavioral, and health systems contributors to death. 2. Position: Principal investigator April 2014 - Now Institution: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Founding agency: Fogarty/US National Institutes of Health Runachay: Promoting the use of Information and communication technologies for Global Health The goal of this proposal is to promote and increase research training and the use of Information Communication Technologies for global health research within Spanish- speaking countries in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Africa through three levels of training opportunities: Short Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) in Spanish, Medium-term interactive online courses that will include mentor interaction, and Practicums and mentored research awards. 3. Position: Principal investigator April 2014 - Now Institution: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, University of Washington Founding agency: Fogarty/US National Institutes of Health Exploring Psychosocial Determinants of Poor Engagement in Cancer Services for Women in Peru The goal of this proposal is to explore the role of stigma and other psychological/cultural characteristics in relation to engagement in breast/cervical cancer services among cancer survivors. 4. Position: Principal investigator July 2010 to June 2014 Institution: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, NGO Via Libre and Epicentro Founding agency: Fogarty/US National Institutes of Health Tu Nexo: Randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of a novel web-based intervention to increase HIV testing in men who have sex with men in Lima- Peru. The major objective of this project is to assess the effect of a combined online video, e- mail, chat and SMS intervention in increasing HIV testing among men who have sex with men in Peru. 3 Blas - 4 5. Position: Co-Investigator September 2009- September 2014 Institution: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Founding agency: Fogarty/US National Institutes of Health QUIPU: The Andean Global Health Informatics Research and Training Center The goal of this proposal is to establish the “QUIPU: Andean Global Health Informatics Research and Training Center”, a center of excellence for training and research in global health informatics to serve as a hub for addressing the national and regional needs for high-quality training in the Andean Region. 6. Position: Principal investigator September 2012 to February 2013 Institution: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Founding agency: Vine Trust, Scotland Evaluating the impact of the Amazon Hope Program The objective of this study is to determine the demographic characteristics, as well as the prevalence of chronic and infection diseases of the population that is reached by the Amazon Hope Program. This program provides medical and dental care to people who live in 160 remote communities along six Amazon basins. 7. Position: Principal investigator January 2011 to March 2013 Institution: Cayetano Heredia Medical Clinic Founding agency: Merck Sharp and Dohme Analizate: A study of HPV prevalence in multiple anatomical sites among men who have sex with men in Peru The objective of this project was to determine the type-specific prevalence of anal, penile, and mouth/throat HPV infection, as well as anal and penile abnormalities in MSM. 8. Position: Co-investigator June 2011-present Institution: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Founding agency: Fogarty/National Institutes of Health HIV prevention aboard: A cluster randomized controlled trial to increase HIV testing and condom use among riverboat crewmembers who travel on the Amazon River 9. Position: Principal Investigator January 2010 to December 2012 Institution: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, University of Washington & Merck Founding agency: Fogarty/US National Institutes of Health AINBO: Association between Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and Human T- lymphotropic virus (HTLV) among indigenous women from the Peruvian Amazon 4 Blas - 5 The objective of this project was to determine the type-specific prevalence of HPV infection of the cervix and the prevalence of epithelial cell abnormalities of the cervix of HTLV-positive and HTLV-negative